Cryptoverse: Breezy bitcoin can hit $150,000 by 2025
Bitcoin is riding high.
The world's largest cryptocurrency has leapt 22% this year to $52,005, pushing it past a market value of $1 trillion mark for the first time since its record heyday of late 2021.
Its resurgence has electrified the broader cryptocurrency market, including ether and other digital coins, which has now exceeded $2 trillion, as per data from CoinGecko.
The sector has been bolstered by the U.S. regulatory approval of several spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), from BlackRock and Fidelity among others, which allow access to the crypto coin vis regular stock exchanges.
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View Details» The U.S. spot ETFs added 60,000 bitcoin in the first month of their launch, more than twice the miner production in the same period, brokerage Bernstein said.
«The amount of flows far outstrips anyone's expectation,» said Mark Connors, head of research at Canada's 3iQ Corp.
Crypto trading volumes are also robust.
Total spot trading volumes on centralized exchanges rose 4.4% to $1.4 trillion in January, recording the fourth consecutive monthly increase and the highest reading since June 2022, a report by London-based researcher CCData said.
The resurgence of interest helped the largest listed crypto exchange Coinbase Global post its first quarterly profit in two years last week .
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